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    In the early to late 1970s America was extremely biased towards African Americans do to the color of their skin 45 years laters a woman named Marie Lu wrote a novel entitled ’Legend’ in the novel two characters on the opposite sides of the law learn of the unfairness of the goverment of where they live. In the 1970s African Americans where seperated from the blacks in terms of water faucets and bathrooms. In the book people are seperated based on intelligence level. The way the book and segregation

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    Two names that are repeatedly mentioned in sociological theory are Karl Marx and Max Weber. In some ways these two intellectuals were similar in the way they looked at society. There are also some striking differences. In order to compare and contrast these two individuals it is necessary to look at each of their ideas. Then a comparison of their views can be illustrated followed by examples of how their perspectives differ from each other. Karl Marx was born in Trier‚ Germany in 1818. He

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    Little Bee Novel

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    Suicide Makes Morality (rought draft) In the novel Little Bee‚ by Chris Cleave‚ the author writes about a refugee girl and a couple of English citizens who face many struggles as they move on with their lives.Suicide is a big factor on how the character’s separate lives work out. The different reasons for committing or wanted commit suicide could be seen as immoral from the readers’ perspective. The character Little Bee constantly thinks about ways to kill herself when enters new environments and

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    traditional and non-traditional exportable items. (4) ’While some commodities have good export potential (handicrafts‚ engineering product‚ readymade) other items (sugar‚ jute‚ iron and steel) fluctuated considerably. Direction of India’s Foreign Trade: The main Ganges in the direction of India’s foreign trade can be mentioned as follows: (1) New Trading Partners: Prior to independence‚ India’s foreign trade was concentrated around U.K. while after independence it has opened id expanded trade channels

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    Novel vs Novella

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    A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. A common length is about 50 to 100 pages‚ or around 20‚000 to 40‚000 words. The extra length is generally used for more character development than is possible in a short story‚ but without the much greater character and plot development of a novel. ------------------------------------------------- Novella From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the literary form. For

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    Modern Novel Features

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    After discussing the various reasons which have made the novel the most popular literary form today‚ let us consider the main characteristics of the modern novel. In the first place‚ we can say that it is realistic as opposed toidealistic. The ‘realistic’ writer is one who thinks that truth to observed facts—facts about the outer world‚ or facts about his own feelings—is the great thing‚ while the ‘idealistic’ writer wants rather to create a pleasant and edifying picture. The modern novelist is ‘realistic’

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    Anne Tyler Novels

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    and criticism. Otherwise‚ don ’t expect any works of history or politics. Biographies? What ’s the point? She knows how the story will end. "It would be a better book if they just wrote a novel about that person‚" Tyler reasons during a recent sunny morning‚ a mug of coffee in her hands‚ her gray-dark hair pulled back in a bun. For nearly 50 years Tyler has been making it up – and telling the truth – about love‚ family‚ work and death‚ while leaving current events for the nonfiction writers to handle

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    Theorist of Modern Novel

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    THEORISTS OF THE MODERNIST NOVEL In the early twentieth century the modernist novel exploded literary conventions and expectations‚ challenging representations of reality‚ consciousness and identity.These novels were not simply creative masterpieces but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. In this volume Deborah Parsons traces the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce‚ Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. Considering

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    Theories of Authorship and the Novel At its most basic level‚ literature is commonly regarded as a kind of communication between author and reader. Just as in ordinary linguistic communication where a speaker conveys a message to an addressee‚ so in literature an author sends a message to a reader. The component elements of this definition are‚ however‚ open to criticism. Mikhail Bakhtin‚ Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva explore the position and role of the author in relation to the text.

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    Alchemist- responding to the novel 1- The novel is based on 19th-20th century‚ Santiago‚ the shepherd lives out in the fields with his sheep. He goes from Andalusia‚ Spain to Tangier‚ from Tangier he travels to the Saharan oasis Al-Fayoum. The impact of the time setting in this novel is the fact that religion is very strong amongst the people. We as readers come across this time setting and setting (location) itself has an impact on the behavior of the characters we come across as we come across

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